Watch Lloyd Clefstad, the "woodroofguy" from www.woodroof.com produce hand split tapered shakes, or tapersplit shakes. These Western Red Cedar shakes are a special custom order - 30" (76cm) long - to used on a historic restoration roof in Philadelphia, PA.

Producing yellow cedar tapersawn shakes on November 2, 2009. 400 bundles were shipped to New Zealand for new construction of a Cape Cod style B&B guesthouse. These 18" x 5/8" Tapersawn shakes to be used as exterior siding for the house. This is a quick and dirty edit of the video taken today at the mill. Beautiful wood and beautiful shakes!

Many thanks to Goldband Shake & Shingle to allow WoodRoof.com into their mill to watch and film the production of these beautiful Western Red Cedar 1-1/4" (32mm) JUMBO Handsplit & Resawn Shakes. This order of 16 squares (1600 sq ft or 150 m2) was produced in one day and shipped to Mendham, NJ USA in April 2013 to help restore a 100 year old barn. We look forward to seeing the photos of the finished roof. Thank you for the order!